Dragon - Concept Art - LiveStream TONIGHT on Discord

News / 16 August 2024

I'll be doing some Creature Character Art Tonight as a Live Stream, so stay tuned for the time but it'll be roughly between 8:30-9pm and 10:30-11pm

See you all there!-If you are not a patreon yet, you can join us here: www.patreon.com/ranmanolov

Make sure to join the Discord channel and enter the livestream. 

Posing the little guys to a more relaxed rest pose for the anatomy refinement and the following scale work.


Character Art | D2:Barbarian - Boots

Making Of / 02 November 2023


Latest on Patreon. 

Showed a bit more character work and more specifically - surfacing/ detailing stage on these boots from my ongoing DiabloII:Barbarian project. 

You can watch the entire video there and all other parts being crafted here: www.patreon.com/ranmanolov
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Next stop belt, skulls and ropes creation. 

Character Art | D2:Barbarian - Accessories

Making Of / 04 October 2023

More character art and "The Making Of" from this D2:Barbarian. Worked on his other hand and gave him a few more accessories. Next will be moving onto somethingbigger - chest straps and shoulder armour. 
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As with all the rest, you can watch the entire process recorded in real time on my patreon page HERE: www.patreon.com/ranmanolov
Or simply follow me for more updates/ wips/ works: www.instagram.com/ranmanolov

Character Art | D2: Barbarian | Bracers

Making Of / 27 September 2023

Continuing with the character work. Tighten up the bracer, scaled up the rings, did a surfacing pass on the leather and added wear&tear. All UVd and nearly ready for texturing(can not wait..). Minor tweaks ahead such as detail on the stitching and few minor intersections. Will get this done and move onto the next part.

All recorded and videos available to watch in real time speed here: www.patreon.com/ranmanolov

For more: www.instagram.com/ranmanolov

This is a big image( click to see in full res)

Character Art | D2: Barbarian | Wraps

Making Of / 27 September 2023

Character Art | D2: Barbarian | Hands - Topology update

Making Of / 25 September 2023

While working on this barbarian, I went over the TOPOLOGY of the hand.

You can see lots of video PREVIEWS(only 30secs. due to limitation from patreon) of the videos and the content that I put there.

Big thanks to Ian for always helping with the painful tasks( and not only!)


Character Art | D2: Barbarian | Torch

Making Of / 19 September 2023

As I have renewed the character work on my Diablo II Barbarian, I wanted to create a torch for him. These are parts 01, 02 and 03. 

In the first video I go over:
- modelling part
- blockout
UVs



I will eventually not only create a real time/ rendered version but also prep this guy for 3d printing so the flame had to be sculpted. 

In this part of the series I go over:
- cloth wrikle sculpting
- adjusting everything as well as 
- sculpting the flame



Finally in this video I go over the detailing and the surfacing of the torch. I show how I:
- approach the detailing of the cloth
- applying the texture( using tileable alphas) 

I will also show how to:
- make a custom alpha tileable 
- approach the detailing of the wooden handle 
- approach the detailing of the rope 

All in real time. More to come!


NEWS - Patreon Page | Introducing >>> Collections <<<

News / 13 September 2023





Introducing >>> COLLECTIONS <<< feature to my Patreon Page.

All the videos are now organised by CATEGORIES( so called: Collections)

You can now filter and follow an entire project by simply going to collections tab and selecting the project you want to( together with all the videos that are linked to it)

Also added thumbnails for each project from it's current/latest state. You can see roughly how many videos there are overall. Real time, timelapses etc. Exclusive images etc. are not shown here so this comes as bonus.

Enjoy!

Link: www.patreon.com/ranmanolov
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Tiger polish

Making Of / 01 September 2023

Polishing the little guy before stepping up. Photoshoot nearing..

Decorative Frame Blockout - Patreon Sample -

General / 15 December 2022

Here's a sample from this little tutorial of this decorative frame that I did for my patreons. I wanted to say Thank you for following and learning. I really appreciate it.

Full video can be seen on my patreon page. This is only part 01 as you can clearly see this is just a frame.

www.patreon.com/ranmanolov